Magdalena Ball
Magdalena Ball is a novelist, poet, reviewer, interviewer, vice president of Flying Island Press, and managing editor of Compulsive Reader. She is the author of two novels and seven poetry…
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Magdalena Ball
Magdalena Ball is a novelist, poet, reviewer, interviewer, sustainability manager, vice president of Flying Island Poetry Community and managing editor of Compulsive Reader, one of Australia’s most respected online review sites, which has been publishing high-quality book reviews since 1997. She is a popular festival moderator and has interviewed over 150 writers for the Compulsive Reader Talks podcast, now in its 27th year. Her work has appeared in an extensive list of journals and anthologies, and has won or been shortlisted in many local and international awards, including, in 2023/24, the QRAA Ekphrasis Challenge, the Melbourne Poets Union International Poetry Competition, the SCWC Poetry Award, the Liquid Amber Press poetry prize, the University of Canberra Vice-Chancellor’s international poetry prize, and the Woollahra Digital Literary Award, as well as shortlisting for a Red Room Poetry Fellowship. She is the author of several novels and poetry books, most recently, Bobish, a verse-memoir published by Puncher & Wattmann in 2023.
Festival Events
Surviving the Surviving: Jane Messer in Conversation
DATE March 28 TIME 10:00 am WHEREUniversity of Newcastle NUspace X301 Book nowThe Lost Women of Australian Literature
DATE March 29 TIME 11:30 am WHEREUniversity of Newcastle NUspace X301 Book nowOur Fathers: Adam Courtenay, Mandy Sayer, and S. Shakthidharan
DATE March 29 TIME 1:00 pm WHEREHunter Room Newcastle City Hall Book nowSpeaking Truth to Power: Madison Griffiths and Sonia Orchard
DATE March 29 TIME 2:30 pm WHEREUniversity of Newcastle NUspace X320 Book nowBY THE ARTIST
